jenius

LOL, I haven't seen it yet but Night Stalker, your criticisms seem a bit shallow. You don't like the character designs or outfits, that's fine. You didn't like how little Rick was there but they're obviously trying to move on from the original cast and use the original cast as bait. Being pissed because HG didn't have enough money to make some blockbuster amazing film is like making fun of poor kids for not having designer jeans. You can do, but what are you accomplishing? No Sir, if you want to write a real scathing review, and it sounds like you do, you gotta attack the bread and not the butter. The fact we don't see a Cyclone transform seems ticky tacky for those of us who haven't seen it (it might become readily apparent that they did everything to avoid it and seem more jarring for those who have actually viewed it). No... go after the WRITING to destroy a film. Make fun of nonsensical elements. Tell me about the part where the main character escaped on a flying rock. Tell me about how a pilot who was lost in space was discovered because of a new technology that found sound energy in the cosmos. That's the kind of stupidity you have to nail. Bad outfits are par for the SciFi course.

Man, now I wanna dig up my pic of mine hugging a beer can. Good work, I'm sure you'll have a ton more fun with that toy now than you could ever have with a stock one.

The only problem with that variation is that you can't pose that portion of the leg forward for a super aggressive GERWALK stance like the VF-1 poses in.

Man, if you guys didn't watch the last episode of MacZero you missed some pretty cool action. Yeah, the ultimate ending is a bit... open to interpretation... but the action is pretty cool.

isn't it crazy how easy the knee mod is and what a huge difference it makes?? It's almost like Bandai sabotaged themselves when they made the toy... it makes no sense at all. Looks much cleaner than mine!

Ooh, parallel to M7 and knocks M7 into a parallel universe a la M2!

Can they finally make the biege/orange Martian LV that I've been begging for? Jeesh, sometimes I think Yamato doesn't listen to me at all. Oh.. wait... I think the next time I'm bored I'm gonna photo-shop my martian LV.

IIRC - if i recall correctly Kitbash - someone took various model kits and "bashed" them into one new unique model.

Now I believe you're likely correct but... How unencumbered do you expect a girl in her first year of junior high school to be? Also, do you think the ads for the men state they must be single and unmarried to be in the film? LOL, I'm not trying to argue anything here, I just think there's some humor in the ad.

I'm not sure I'm following perfectly, but for mine I think I had to mod both the piece your showing in tape and the piece above it for lack of clearance after you add the mobility to the lower assembly. So, the intake (hip) hangs over the thigh so if you mod the thigh it still can't move because of the hip. So, after you mod the thigh you also need to mod the hip (well, that's how I remember it, hopefully I'm wrong because that's where things got awfully nasty).

LOL, why does the actress need to be single? What the heck are they going to make her do to get this job??

LOL, I destroyed a gun trying to make it collapsible. It's definitley "ambitious" especially since the width of the leg wouldn't really accomodate it either. I didn't even touch the hip area you're starting with. Looks like a good start. The most dreaded area I modded are the blue pegs that come up from either leg to connect to the thigh. That's the area that required my cutting and warping black pieces of plastic and the parts that eventually broke free when poor Humpty fell.

I'll tell you this much, you're already off to a much better start than I was by having much better tools. Graham should also be a lot of help here, he has at least one custom VF-17.

Wow, I've never been so stoked to read absolute gibberish! I mean that seriously.

Yeah, could this be about Kissdum or something?

can we get a new 1/48 to go with the urban camo GBP? And, as always, tell them how much we want the 2 seaters in 1/48. Also tell them they should pick up the Mospeada license.

LOL, is the sculpting of a head really that much of a hang up? I mean, that's the easiest out I could ever imagine. "We don't want to spend the 4 cents it'd take us to come up with a new head." If Toynami could do it for their 5000 run YF-1R I'm pretty sure it doesn't even register as an excuse with Yamato.

The 1/60 VF-1 is the epitomy of so-so. I would love for them to go back and make a 1/60 VF-1 that actually seems up to the standard of late 1/60 releases. I'm not expecting it to be as cool as a 1/48 but it could very easily be improved. Yes, the 1/60 VF-1S head should have gotten someone fired, it's that bad. Meh CD, the 1S is many people's absolute favorite, what kind of solution is it to tell them to just live with being unhappy with it? It's not a solution at all. The fact that there's room to debate whether or not the 1/60 VF-1 is a better toy than a Toynami MPC alone should be strong support for the 1/60 VF-1 being revisited.

I think that was just kind of a semantics issue. Here's how I imagine it: G: "Are you going to do the 2-seaters in 1/48?" Y: "In 1/48? No." As in, "We've done the 2 seaters but they're in 1/60 scale." The way the CF went down was kind of strange. It seemed like Yamato told all potential vendors to request numbers in advance so they could determine how big the production volume would be. That made the vendors think the CF would be a limited edition. Then Yamato made a production run similar in size to what all the preorder figures were (I'm sure with some amount of slack to round the number up). This doesn't make the CF a limited edition though, Yamato can always make more CFs later, it just ensured that Yamato wouldn't make so many the market would be flooded. Since then it seems all Yamato releases have been rather limited... because they know they can just reissue later.

Kensei, why did you list the LV2 as a limited edition? To my knowledge the LV1 is still the only limited version we've seen. Remember when we were being convinced the CF-1A was a limited edition also?

yep, not the most user friendly but i believe this is it http://macross.anime.net/

Someone could probably measure but if you know the scale and you know what size the vehicle is supposed to be you can just do the math. There might be some variances but i assume you'd get those from people just measuring also.

If he cares about swapping parts the 1/60 is bad advice.

You know what would make that display look really cool F4V? A Beta! Man, I seriously can't believe we're not any closer to getting those. Anyway, this thread inspired a pic I put up so I thought I'd share it here. It doesn't really relate too much but it shows the difference between a 1/55 and a 1/60 valk.

I've updated the Yamato 1/60 review for the first releases on my site. I think it covers the strengths and weaknesses pretty nicely but feel free to differ. If you think I over-looked something lemme know.